Happy Birthday, Duckie!

Little E turned ONE with a few good friends to witness the breakdown...

Observe.



Bubble machine... okay, interesting... I can handle that.


Open presents... paper to eat... good, good.

WHY IS EVERYONE STARING AT ME??

Baby E's big photo shoot...

Thanks, Karly!!

What we did on our summer vacation...

Spent some time in the pool...


Shot a few rounds of golf...

"Climbed" a mountain...
Braved raging rapids...
Tried something new...
had a BLAST!!!

8 months...

tai-chi practicing, snowboard champion, I can fix the flat on your car...

I might even be a ROCKSTAR!

Beautiful April Weather???

One weekend it's 80 degrees and the next it's THIS... yes, it's SNOW. And they loved playing soccer anyway...

oh, baby!

Isn't she just the cutest thing ever? Well, WE think so!

Random photos...

Snowman Party

For R's 5th Birthday, we had a fun Snowman Party. We made snowman hats, snowman necklaces, played "Pin the Carrot on the Snowman", had a pinata, played with some Insta-Snow and ate snowman cupcakes...

Princess Emma and her domain...

More photos...

Photo Shoot with Karly...

more to follow...

Aloha Oe...

Our "Summer Fun Luau" was a big hit! The girls had a great time decorating flip flops with silk flowers and sequins... they made picture frames and I printed out these photos as a memento of the day. It wasn't entirely HOT... but they all got in the pool and stayed in despite their lips turning blue. They enjoyed their tropical fruit kabobs... and their water balloon fight - although I think making the water balloons was more fun than actually throwing them at each other.
Now it's time for Mommy to relax and take a couple days off... ha!

Aloha! Time to think about the Nursery....

Found this Laguna Collection on sale at Pottery Barn Kids... loved it... talked hubby into letting me buy a couple of things... the little palm tree pillow pictured in the 3rd picture was a must-have. Now I'm very excited for the possibilities of decorating the nursery. A palm tree bookshelf, perhaps? Some shadow box frames with bargain Old Navy flip flops...? Thankfully, I found some much-needed inspiration today to get the ball rolling and prepare for Baby Girl #3.

Now... if we only had a better name than Baby Girl #3....

Oh - and if you know the perfect patterned paper to go with this bedding - let me know!!